Just chiming in, We have 3 big Cincinnati Milacron turning centers, all now running/using LinuxCNC on a daily basis, and they all have 2 speed gearboxes on the spindle, and the "gearchange" component works perfectly to get the speeds synced properly. I remapped 2 M-codes for the gear change aspect of it, and everything works beautifully.
Thanks Rick On 1/7/2015 4:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 7 January 2015 at 08:00, Mark Johnsen <m...@ijohnsen.com> wrote: > >> Is gearchange the appropriate Hal component to use? Seems perfect. > If you only have two gears then it is probably ideal. > > For more than 2 gears there are other options, but for some reason > none have been accepted into the main package. > > If you have a spindle encoder then it is reasonably easy to work out > the gear ratio. Reset the encoder counts from halcmd then turn the > input shaft 10 turns while watching the encoder.position pin with a > halmeter. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
